"1995 World Championships in Athletics – Men's triple jump These are the official results of the Men's Triple Jump event at the 1995 IAAF World Championships in Gothenburg, Sweden. There were a total number of 44 participating athletes, with two qualifying groups and the final held on Monday August 7, 1995. Almost three weeks before this championship, Jonathan Edwards had just marginally improved upon Willie Banks' ten year old world record (17.97m), by jumping 17.98m in Salamanca. In the preliminary round he was not even the #1 qualifier, edged out by Jérôme Romain. On his first trip down the runway"
"purposes, but it was a sign of things to come as he capped an unbeaten year with a historic gold medal performance at the World Championships, in which he broke the world record twice in the same meeting. On his first jump, he became the first man to legally pass the 18-metre barrier with a jump of 18.16 m (59 feet 7 inches). That record lasted for about 20 minutes. His second jump of 18.29 m made him the first to jump 60 feet. During his commentary for the 2008 Summer Olympics, Edwards observed that during the 1995 World Championships,"
"style=""text-align:center"" | 1992 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 1993 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 1994 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 1995 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 1996 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 1997 ! colspan=3| Career ! 134 ! 85 ! 75 ! 1421 ! 690 ! 2111 ! 418 ! 149 ! 0.6 ! 0.6 ! 10.6 ! 5.1 ! 15.8 ! 3.1 ! 1.1 ! scope=""row"" style=""font-weight:normal""|2005 ! scope=""row"" style=""font-weight:normal""|2006 ! scope=""row"" style=""font-weight:normal""|2007 ! scope=""row"" style=""font-weight:normal""|2008 ! scope=""row"" style=""font-weight:normal""|2009 ! scope=""row"" style=""font-weight:normal""|2010 ! scope=""row"" style=""font-weight:normal""|2011 ! scope=""row"" style=""font-weight:normal""|2012 ! scope=""row"" style=""font-weight:normal""|2013 ! scope=""row"" style=""font-weight:normal""|2014^ ! scope=""row"" style=""font-weight:normal""|2015 ! scope=""row"" style=""font-weight:normal""|2016 ! scope=""row"" style=""font-weight:normal""|2017"
"Ashton Eaton Ashton James Eaton (born January 21, 1988) is a retired American decathlete and two-time Olympic champion, who holds the world record in the indoor heptathlon event. Eaton is the second decathlete (after Roman Šebrle) to break the 9,000-point barrier in the decathlon, with 9,039 points, a score he bettered on August 29, 2015, when he beat his own world record with a score of 9,045 points. His world record was broken by Frenchman Kévin Mayer on September 16, 2018 with a total of 9,126 points. He competed for the Oregon Track Club Elite team based in Eugene, Oregon."
"be his last decathlon competition before retiring at age 29. Eaton won the 2015 world title in the decathlon improving his own world record with a 9045-point performance in Beijing. Ashton Eaton Ashton James Eaton (born January 21, 1988) is a retired American decathlete and two-time Olympic champion, who holds the world record in the indoor heptathlon event. Eaton is the second decathlete (after Roman Šebrle) to break the 9,000-point barrier in the decathlon, with 9,039 points, a score he bettered on August 29, 2015, when he beat his own world record with a score of 9,045 points. His world"
"Sports Centre"". Edwards then read Physics at Durham University, attending Van Mildert College. Due to his strong Christian beliefs during his athletic career, discussed in more detail below, he initially refused to compete on Sundays, but eventually decided to do so in 1993. This decision proved timely, since the qualifying round at that year's World Championships took place on a Sunday. He went on to win the bronze medal. In his breakthrough year of 1995, Edwards produced a jump of 18.43 m (60 feet inches) at the European Cup. The leap was wind assisted and did not count for record"
"! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 1992 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 1993 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 1994 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 1995 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 1996 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 1997 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 1998 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 1999 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 2000 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center;"" | 2001 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center;"" | 2002 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center;"" | 2003 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 2004 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 2005 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 2006 ! colspan=3| Career ! 289 ! 245 ! 161 ! 3474 ! 2669 ! 6143 ! 1117 ! 613 ! 0.8 ! 0.6 ! 12.0"
"beaten by the current record holder Kevin Young with a time of 46.78 seconds at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics. As of June 21, 2009, 21 world records have been ratified by the IAAF in the event. ""y"" denotes time for 440 yards (402.34 m) which was ratified as a world record in this event From 1975, the IAAF accepted separate automatically electronically timed records for events up to 400 metres. Starting January 1, 1977, the IAAF required fully automatic timing to the hundredth of a second for these events. John Akii-Bua's 1972 Olympic gold medal run was the fastest recorded"
"Edwards, another member of the England Athletics Hall of Fame, joined Gateshead Harriers in 1991. Edwards was a member of the club when he set his record mark in winning gold at the 1995 World Championships in Helsinki, when winning Olympic gold at the 2000 Sydney Games and a second world title a year later in Edmonton. Both Foster and Edwards are honorary life members of the club. In 1998, Gateshead was awarded a rugby league franchise after a three-way contest with Cardiff and Swansea. The result was Gateshead Thunder, who played in Super League IV in 1999. The Thunder"
"world record in 8:02.08 in Zurich. The following year, he defended the World Championship title easily in Stuttgart. He won the steeplechase at the 1994 IAAF World Cup. In 1995 he broke the 5000m world record in Rome in a time of 12:55.30 min (June 8). After collecting his third World Championship gold medal in Gothenburg he also set the new 3000m steeplechase record in Zurich in a time of 7:59.18 min (August 16), the first man in history to ever dip under eight minutes for the 3000m steeplechase. A year later, he missed out on an Olympic gold medal"
"his heat. In the 1000 metre race four days later, Jansen was on a world record pace when he again fell. After failing again in Albertville, Jansen finally won a gold medal at the 1994 Lillehamer Games. One of the most popular athletes from the games was British ski jumper Eddie ""The Eagle"" Edwards, who gained infamy by placing last in both the 70 and 90 metre events finishing 70 and 53 points behind his next closest competitor, respectively. Edwards' ""heroic failure"" made him an instant celebrity; he went from earning £6,000 per year as a plasterer before the Games"
"! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 1989 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 1990 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 1991 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 1992 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 1993 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 1994 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 1995 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 1996 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 1997 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 1998 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 1999 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 2000 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 2001 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 2002 ! colspan=3| Career ! 283 ! 95 ! 83 ! 2964 ! 2713 ! 5677 ! 427 ! 1225 ! 0.3 ! 0.3 ! 10.5 ! 9.6 ! 20.1 !"
"lands first on the same foot as that from which he has taken off; in the step he shall land on the other foot, from which, subsequently, the jump is performed."" The current male and female world record holders are Jonathan Edwards of Great Britain, with a jump of , and Inessa Kravets of Ukraine, with a jump of . Both records were set during 1995 World Championships in Gothenburg. Historical sources on the ancient Olympic Games occasionally mention jumps of 15 meters or more. This led sports historians to conclude that these must have been a series of jumps,"
"scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 1988 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 1989 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 1990 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 1991 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 1992 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 1993 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 1994 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 1995 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 1996 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 1997 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 1998 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 1999 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 2000 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 2001 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 2002 ! colspan=3| Career ! 359 ! 110 ! 119 ! 3424 ! 2143 ! 5567 ! 1268 ! 395 ! 0.3 ! 0.3 ! 9.5 !"
"1988 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 1989 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 1990 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 1991 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 1992 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 1993 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 1994 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 1995 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 1996 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 1997 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 1998 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 1999 ! colspan=3| Career ! 251 ! 317 ! 262 ! 3595 ! 1401 ! 4996 ! 1027 ! 472 ! 1.3 ! 1.0 ! 14.3 ! 5.6 ! 19.9 ! 4.1 ! 1.9 Nicky Winmar Neil Elvis ""Nicky"" Winmar (born 25 September 1965) is"
"numerous indoor and outdoor World Championships. In fact he won all major championships from 1997 to 2001, including an Olympic gold medal in Sydney. At altitude in Sestriere in 1995, Iván Pedroso jumped 8.96 meters with a measured wind of +1.2. This would have been the world record, beating Mike Powell by one centimeter. However, the Italian Athletics Federation did not forward the result to the IAAF for ratification, since the wind mark was declared invalid, because a person stood in front of the anemometer, probably intercepting the correct wind measurement. Despite his great success in the World Championships, due"
"style=""text-align:center"" | 1996 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 1997 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 1998 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 1999 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 2000 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center;"" | 2001 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 2002 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center;"" | 2003 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 2004 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 2005 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 2006 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 2007 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 2008 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 2009 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 2010 ! colspan=3| Career ! 231 ! 524 ! 255 ! 1695 ! 559 ! 2254 ! 1230 ! 234 ! 2.3 ! 1.1 ! 7.3 ! 2.4"
"set in 1996 by Kurt Thompson. It was also a NACAC junior record as well. One week later he reset all those marks, while competing at the IAAF International Centennial Meet in Havana, Cuba. He extended the records with a winning throw of . In the stadium on Saturday evening 11 August, made conditions for the javelin throw less than ideal, and worse than during Wednesday's qualifying rounds. Walcott responded to the pressure of the Olympic finals by throwing a personal best distance on his first throw, giving him the lead, and then exceeding that distance on his second throw."
"John Howard (cyclist) John Howard (born August 16, 1947 in Springfield, Missouri) is an Olympic cyclist from the United States, who set a land speed record of 152.2 miles per hour (245 km/h) while motor-pacing on a pedal bicycle on July 20, 1985 on Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats. This record was beaten in 1995 by Fred Rompelberg. A competitor at the 1968, 1972 and 1976 Summer Olympics, Howard won the gold medal in the 1971 Pan American Games road cycling race in Cali, Colombia, as a member of the U.S. Army cycling team by beating Luis Carlos Florez in a"
"style=""text-align:center"" | 1994 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 1995 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 1996 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 1997 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 1998 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 1999 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 2000 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 2001 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 2002 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 2003 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 2004 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 2005 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 2006 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 2007 ! colspan=3| Career ! 311 ! 143 ! 78 ! 2935 ! 1152 ! 4087 ! 1237 ! 574 ! 0.5 ! 0.3 ! 9.4 ! 3.7 ! 13.1 ! 4.0 !"
"that it is the longest jump ever with a negative wind reading (the athlete with the next best is Jonathan Edwards with 17.79 meters). The jump ranks Harrison as the third best triple jumper in history, behind Jonathan Edwards (18.29WR) and Christian Taylor (18.21). Harrison was inducted in the USATF Hall of Fame in 2013. 1998: best of 55-11.25…8th at Goodwill Games (54-2.75)…ranked #4 U.S. in TJ by T&FN. 1997: best of 57-5.5…won USA Champs (55-8.25)…9th at World Champs (55-11.25)…ranked #4 in world (#1 U.S.) at TJ by T&FN. 1996: best of 59-4.25…won Olympic Trials (59-1.25w)…gold at Olympic Games (59-4.25"
"1992 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 1993 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 1994 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center;"" | 1995 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 1996 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 1997 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 1998 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 1999 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 2000 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 2001 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 2002 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 2003 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 2004 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 2005 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 2006 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 2007 ! colspan=3| Career ! 278 ! 226 ! 176 ! 3065 ! 2330 ! 5395 ! 1224 ! 568 ! 0.8 ! 0.6 !"
"Jason was suffering from a concussion in 2005 and didn't make the final, finishing 10th overall. Still involved in the skate community, Ellis has recently performed Skate Demos alongside Tony Hawk, is a perennial X-Games competitor in the Mega Ramp competition, and was the host of the annual 'Tony Hawk's Boom Boom Huckjam'. In 2001, Ellis set the Guinness World Record for the biggest drop on a skateboard, jumping into a 70-foot skateboard ramp. However, this record was broken in 2006 by fellow professional skateboarder Danny Way at Las Vegas' Hard Rock Café. Ellis formerly trained in the Team Quest"
"scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 1995 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 1996 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 1997 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 1998 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 1999 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 2000 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center;"" | 2001 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center;"" | 2002 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center;"" | 2003 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 2004 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 2005 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 2006 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 2007 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 2008 ! colspan=3| Career ! 279 ! 174 ! 173 ! 3758 ! 2153 ! 5911 ! 1293 ! 596 ! 0.6 ! 0.6 ! 13.5 ! 7.7 ! 21.2 ! 4.6"
"on June 20, 2003, surpassed that record with a score of 9,100,175. Erway held the record for 2 years until December 5, 2005 when Kelly Tharp of Louisville, KY achieved a score of 9,100,175 in Humble, TX at Totally Amused. This was at a Twin Galaxies sponsored event called ""The Golden Age Showdown"". This marathon game was authenticated by videotape and also by Twin Galaxies referees Dwayne Richard of Canada and Walter Day of Ottumwa, IA. Tharp held the record for 10 years until William 'Snowflake' Rosa of Vermilion, OH achieved a score of 10,361,550 on October 18, 2015 which"
"IAAF World Cross Country Championships. Later that year he set his first world record by running a 12:56.96 in the 5,000-metres, breaking Saïd Aouita's record by two seconds. In 1995, Haile ran the 10,000-metres in 26:43.53 in Hengelo, Netherlands, lowering the world record by nine seconds. That same summer, in Zürich, Switzerland, Haile ran the 5000 metres in 12:44.39, taking 10.91 seconds off the world record 12:55.30 (established by Kenya's Moses Kiptanui earlier in the year). This world record at the Weltklasse meet in Zürich was voted ""Performance of the Year"" for 1995 by ""Track & Field News"" magazine. At"
"he broke the world record bungee jumping (6720 m) from a hot air balloon. In 1995 he became Belgium sky surfing champion and finished 4th at the World Championships in Eloy, Arizona. As member of the Belgian Himalaya expedition he climbed, in 1997, the Annapurna (8031 m) without oxygen. In 2000 he broke the Belgian hang gliding record aerobatics. In 2002 he was a member of the Belgian Olympic Fencing Team and finished 8th at the World Championships and 12th at the European Championships per team. As first Belgian ever he participated in the Rolex Sydney-Hobart, yacht race. In 2005"
"! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 1996 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 1997 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 1998 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 1999 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 2000 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 2001 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 2002 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 2003 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 2004 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 2005 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 2006 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 2007 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 2008 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 2009 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 2010 ! colspan=3| Career ! 321 ! 192 ! 125 ! 3758 ! 2336 ! 6094 ! 1441 ! 830 ! 0.6 ! 0.4 ! 11.7"
"| 1999 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 2000 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 2001 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 2002 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 2003 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 2004 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 2005 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 2006 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 2007 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 2008 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 2009 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 2010 ! colspan=3| Career ! 209 ! 135 ! 87 ! 2650 ! 1035 ! 3685 ! 813 ! 473 ! 0.6 ! 0.4 ! 12.7 ! 5.0 ! 17.6 ! 3.9 ! 2.3 Travis Johnstone Travis Johnstone (born 17 July 1980) is an"
"the new division of masters athletics setting the M45 world record at age 48 as soon as the new javelin came out. Stuart improved the previous record by over 6 meters (20 feet). His mark remained until 2007, when it was surpassed by British/American Olympian Roald Bradstock. He remained consistent setting almost identical records in the M50 and M55 divisions 7 years apart. At the 1995 WAVA World Championships he faced 1968 Olympic Gold Medalist Janis Lusis and defeated him soundly. His winning throw that day , using the masters age grading system, ranked at , the longest age-graded mark"
"record, setting it at 1:46.43. This record stood firm until Jakko Jan Leeuwangh broke it in January 2000. For many years, his personal trainer was former Norwegian speed skater Tom Erik Oxholm. At the 2002 Winter Olympics, he was elected by the athletes as an IOC member for a period of 4 years, replacing Johann Olav Koss as one of the athletes representatives. Søndrål has an Adelskalender score of 153.515 points. His highest ranking on the Adelskalender was a 12th place. <br> Ådne Søndrål Ådne Søndrål (born 10 May 1971) is a former Norwegian speed skater. Søndrål, representing Hol IL,"
"scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 1988 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 1989 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 1990 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 1991 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 1992 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 1993 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 1994 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 1995 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 1996 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 1997 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 1998 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 1999 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 2000 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 2001 ! colspan=3| Career ! 258 ! 40 ! 57 ! 2919 ! 1475 ! 4394 ! 798 ! 385 ! 0.2 ! 0.2 ! 11.3 ! 5.7 ! 17.0 ! 3.1"
"110 Meter High Hurdles in 13.98 seconds; Discus 159 ft 4 inches (48.56m); Pole Vault 16 ft 4¾ in (5.00 m); Javelin 205 ft 4 in (62.58m); 1,500 meter run in 4 minutes 42.10 seconds = total 8,891 points). This stood as the world record until 1999, and the American record for nearly twenty years, until Ashton Eaton broke it in 2012 at the U.S. Olympic Trials in Eugene, Oregon. O'Brien was in attendance at Hayward Field and congratulated Eaton shortly after he completed the 1500 meters for a new world record of 9,039 points. At the Olympics in Atlanta"